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" A memento given to Dante by his father, this large magical blade is the physical manifestation of Dante’s power." Straight from DMC4.

Who's to say DMC4 Dantes "coat" isn' melded to him. Also MVC is non-canon.

DMC3 states that Rebellion is a physical manifestation of Dante's power. It doesn't matter that Sparda owned it first because his power was never in it. We also have no account of Sparda acutally using it. Ownership could simply mean he had it on the wall and claimed it belonged to him. Momento also doesn't mean he owned either, he could have simply made it from Dante and hung it on the wall and was like "in many years this will be my gift to Dante."